PALO ALTO, Calif., March 8, 2000 - Informatica Corp. (NASDQ INFA), a leading provider of integrated analytic solutions for e-business, today announced its OEM agreement with Aris Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aris Corporation (NASDAQ: ARSC), that provides Oracle Applications customers with a complete solution for unlocking their critical Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) data for analysis. The integrated solution, which pairs Aris NoetixDW with Informatica PowerMartŪ, helps reduce the time and expense of building analytic solutions from Oracle Applications, speeds time to market so users can generate actionable results more quickly and helps greatly reduce the risk of project failure. Informatica is the only software vendor today offering a single platform that enables its customers to access and analyze data from all three leading ERP systems from Oracle, SAP and PeopleSoft.

Aris NoetixDW leverages technology developed for its flagship NoetixViews application, which helps end users directly access subsets of Oracle Applications data through real-time queries. NoetixDW helps companies build data warehouses containing a broader scope of Oracle Applications data that end users can query during non-peak hours to conduct larger-scale analyses. Paired with NoetixDW, Informatica's award-winning PowerMart software helps consolidate data from multiple databases holding Oracle Applications information, and delivers it to analytic applications for analysis.

"The data generated from Oracle Applications is stored in complex table form and may reside across multiple databases, making it difficult to recognize and extract for strategic business analysis," said Dave Melin, president of Aris Software. "By combining the power of NoetixDW, which creates logical, easy-to-understand objects from data residing in these databases, with PowerMart's ability to deliver these objects to analytic applications, Aris and Informatica now offer companies a powerful solution for generating business intelligence from Oracle Applications."

Continued Melin, "We evaluated a number of data-integration technologies to bundle within our analytic solution for Oracle Applications, but selected Informatica for its robust, scalable architecture and proven success with customers worldwide."

"Oracle, SAP and PeopleSoft are the three largest providers of ERP systems today," said Diaz Nesamoney, president of Informatica. "Through our partnership with Aris Software, Informatica now offers customers the first truly integrated solution for accessing data and metadata from all three ERP systems in order to build analytic solutions. By enabling customers to access ERP data as well as other heterogeneous systems such as Web logs, e-commerce servers and mainframe databases, Informatica now provides the most robust platform for helping companies obtain business insight across their extended enterprises."

The bundled Aris-Informatica solution is now available.

About Informatica

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Informatica is a market-leading provider of complete analytic solutions for e-business that enable many of the world's largest companies to integrate data from across their global enterprises--including e-business servers, Web logs, ERP and mainframe systems--and analyze it in order to grow their business. Over 640 major companies across the world in key industries rely on Informatica's analytic solutions, including eBay, Netscape, CNET, Inktomi, Preview Travel, Priceline.com, Merrill Lynch, 3Com, Autodesk, Chevron, Met Life, Mutual of Omaha, Sprint, MCI WorldCom, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Zurich Insurance and Polo Ralph Lauren. For more information, call 800.970.1179, or visit Informatica's Web site at http://www.informatica.com.

About Aris Software

Aris Software, a Bellevue, WA subsidiary of Aris Corporation, is a leading supplier of end user query and reporting software. NoetixDW greatly facilitates the design, creation and population of Oracle Applications data warehouses. NoetixDW customers have delivered customized DW information within days without specialized Oracle Applications or data warehousing consultants. NoetixViews provides business metadata to over 700 Oracle Applications customers for their day-to-day reporting needs. NoetixWebQuery, the company's newest product, enables users to access corporate data from disparate databases via an XML-powered browser. ARIS Software, Inc. is a member of Oracle's Certified Solutions Provider (CSP) and Cooperative Applications Initiative (CAI) business alliance programs. ASI has operations in the US and UK with distributors in Europe, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand. For more information, call 425.372.2747, or visit ASI's Web site at www.noetix.com.